Heading into the next federal election, it’s important to understand that maintaining and increasing the federal carbon tax (Liberals) or killing it (Conservatives), accounts for only a fraction of the total costs Canadians are paying when it comes to addressing climate change.
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TERRAZZANO: Trudeau’s two carbon taxes hammer Canadians
Another day, another government report proves carbon taxes are a drag on our economy that Canadians can’t afford.
In 2030, the second carbon tax “will result in an overall (Gross Domestic Product) decrease of up to $9 billion.” That’s according to government documents tabled in the House of Commons in response to an order paper question filed by Conservative MP John Barlow (Foothills).
JAY GOLDBERG: Thank Trudeau’s carbon tax for surging heating bills
Taxpayers better brace themselves for the bruising impact of the Trudeau government’s carbon tax on home heating bills this winter.
If you heat your home with natural gas, like more than 75% of Ontario households, you will be paying a lot more to stay warm.
The carbon tax increases the cost of natural gas by 15 cents per cubic metre.
Philip Cross: R.I.P., Canadian carbon tax
With both the federal NDP and B.C.’s NDP government backing away from support for the carbon tax, it is time to pronounce the tax politically dead in Canada, with precise funeral arrangements to be made after the next federal election. Conservative governments across Canada have long opposed a carbon tax, and federal leader Pierre Poilievre is anxious to fight the next election on the issue. But now even Liberal support is flagging, with Newfoundland’s Liberal government attacking the tax as too costly for households. The federal Liberals themselves acknowledged the tax was a problem when they provided a carve-out for home heating oil, which is heavily used in Atlantic Canada.
Battle over sending ‘green slush fund’ docs to RCMP sends House into ‘uncharted territory’
OTTAWA — The Liberals say the House of Commons exceeded its powers when MPs ordered the government to hand over all documents related to the so-called “green slush fund” so they can be sent to the RCMP.
On Wednesday, Government House Leader Karina Gould called on Speaker Greg Fergus to reject opposition parties’ claim that the government violated MPs’ parliamentary privilege by refusing to provide them with unfettered access to thousands of documents regarding Sustainable Development Technology Canada (SDTC).
Jet-setting academics branded hypocrites for lecturing about climate
University researchers have been branded “hypocrites” for condemning air travel as bad for the planet but then flying to conferences anyway.
A study found that about a third of the academics at a leading UK university had flown to at least one meeting in the previous year, despite a large majority expressing concerns about aviation emissions.
“There is a level of hypocrisy: academics know that flying is bad for the environment,” said Professor Jonas De Vos of UCL, the lead author of the study. “But still, we often fly to international conferences, often to [make the argument] that society should be more sustainable.”
As some Ontario plants hit the brakes, are Canada’s EV ambitions under threat?
LOYALIST TOWNSHIP, ONTARIO, CANADA – The plant was expected to produce batteries for a million electric vehicles a year. Once up and running, it was supposed to create hundreds of permanent jobs in a small southeastern Ontario municipality.
It was, Prime Minister Justin Trudeau said at the time, “big news” that Belgium-based Umicore chose Loyalist Township for its battery component production facility — evidence, the federal and provincial governments said, of success in the quest to make Canada a global electric-vehicle production hotspot.
But two years later, spending on the construction of the Umicore plant has been delayed in what the company calls a “significant worsening of the EV market context.”
Star Writer Shocked! Evil Poilievre Brainwashed Canadians Into Believing Trudeau’s Carbon Tax Is An Economy Killing Attack On Working People & Singh Agrees!!
Pierre Poilievre poisoned Canadians against the most effective tool we have for fighting climate change. Why on earth is the NDP going along?
If the federal carbon tax is not yet dead, it has suffered a mortal wound.
Pierre Poilievre’s Conservatives, enjoying a 20-point lead in the polls, have a kid-on-Christmas-morning enthusiasm for repealing it as their first order of business. The Tory position is hardly new, but last Thursday federal NDP leader Jagmeet Singh signalled his intention to disavow the carbon tax that his party has consistently supported in Parliament. The NDP says they will propose an alternative climate plan, details TBD, but stressed that the Liberal carbon tax puts too much of a burden on working people. Which is exactly the Conservatives’ argument against it.
All eco-whinging is an attack on the poor, it’s just another form of control exercised by the elite who can afford such luxury values.
Guilbeault’s department fails environmental subsidies audit
Environment Minister Steven Guilbeault’s department was cited by federal auditors for poor oversight of millions spent on green subsidies, per Blacklock’s Reporter.
Auditors noted spending on subsidies had risen sharply since 2016, by $625 million, with little corresponding scrutiny of where the money went or why.
That’s because it’s a great big Liberal slush fund.
French State Regulator Hits Broadcaster with €20,000 Fine for Climate ‘Misinformation’
Watched by a global audience, last month’s opening ceremony of the Olympic Games in Paris featured an obscene mockery of the Christian Last Supper. Everyone is entitled to their view was a liberal response and some even suggested it was a ‘celebration’ of diverse religious belief. Just days before, the French state fined the second largest rolling news channel CNews €20,000 (£17,000) for failing to question a contributor’s view that human-caused global warming was a scam. Welcome to free speech, French style.
Carbon pricing to cause economic “nuclear winter,” Poilievre tells his MPs
OTTAWA – Conservative Leader Pierre Poilievre signaled the Liberals’ carbon price and the economy will remain his prime target when Parliament resumes this week.
He painted a dystopian picture during a Sunday morning speech to his caucus, saying the Liberal government’s plans to increase the price would cause a “nuclear winter” for the economy.
GOLDSTEIN: NDP reversals on carbon taxes a pre-election gift to Poilievre
So according to David Eby, the NDP premier of British Columbia, the best carbon tax in the world is bad for British Columbians.
Meanwhile, according to federal NDP leader Jagmeet Singh, Prime Minister Justin Trudeau’s national carbon tax, which borrowed heavily from B.C.’s model, is bad for Canadians.
What Scared Ford’s CEO in China
Jim Farley had just returned from China. What the Ford Motor chief executive found during the May visit made him anxious: The local automakers were pulling away in the electric-vehicle race.
In an early-morning call with fellow board member John Thornton, an exasperated Farley unloaded.
The Chinese carmakers are moving at light speed, he told Thornton, a former Goldman Sachs executive who spent years as a senior banker in China. They are using artificial intelligence and other tech in cars that is unlike anything available in the U.S. These Chinese EV makers are using a low-cost supply base to undercut the competition on price, offering slick digital features and aggressively expanding to overseas markets.
“John, this is an existential threat,” Farley said.
He has much more than China to worry about.
Justin Trudeau’s ‘carbon tax’ is losing more allies as Pierre Poilievre’s relentless assault continues
OTTAWA — When it comes to its national carbon pricing regime, the Liberal government is getting lonelier and lonelier.
First it was the opposition New Democrats who raised questions about their support for a policy they had unambiguously championed in the past two federal election campaigns. Earlier this spring, and again this week, NDP Leader Jagmeet Singh suggested his party is looking at other carbon pricing options as it designs a new climate plan for the next campaign. Whatever they come up with, Singh claimed, would not impose a burden on everyday Canadians.
E.U.’s Gas Car Ban: Italy Warns Of Industry ‘Collapse’
Italy is asking the European Union to scrap its internal-combustion vehicle ban, saying it’ll trigger an industry “collapse” if it proceeds as scheduled.
The news was reported by Reuters on Sunday. The 27-nation bloc is scheduled to ban all internal-combustion car sales in 2035. By that date, cars sold within member nations must have no carbon emissions. That means no plug-in hybrids, no hybrids, no gas and no diesel. Electric and hydrogen cars will be the only immediately available options, barring some unforeseen propulsion type.